The decision tree was produced by the Comparing Multiple Interventions Methods Group (CMIMG) with funding from the Cochrane Methods Innovation Fund and reflects the contents of a new set of recommendations which will be incorporated into future editions of The Cochrane Handbook. We have also produced a background paper explaining the rationale for the new recommendations and the steps in the decision tree.

We have produced a protocol template for a Cochrane Intervention Review that compares multiple interventions.

The new recommendations and their rationale were incorporated into the materials for a training event held in Oxford in March 2013 (Slides available here)

Published Reviews that Compare Multiple Interventions

We have created a two bibliographies of existing reviews that compare multiple interventions: